{"quotes":[{"text":"That’s because it is cruel, Obi-Wan,” Anakin snapped. “Cruel and unfeeling and unworthy of the Jedi Order.” He was so like Qui-Gon. This was like arguing with a ghost.","author":"Karen Miller","tags":["anakin-skywalker","jedi","military","obi-wan-kenobi","qui-gon-jinn","self-hatred","star-wars"],"id":1563,"author_id":"Karen+Miller"},{"text":"You are so much more than you are willing to accept, child.","author":"Brandon Sanderson","tags":["acceptance","self-hatred","self-worth","worth"],"id":31157,"author_id":"Brandon+Sanderson"},{"text":"Programmed in self-hatred, many of us shadow-box the light of day away and chase everything meaningless the night through until we perish more ignorant and confused than the very day we were born.","author":"D. Allen Miller","tags":["african-americans","ignorance","self-hatred"],"id":33296,"author_id":"D.+Allen+Miller"},{"text":"Depression can be a form of self hatred. We don't feel comfortable in our own skin.","author":"Michele McKnight Baker","tags":["depression","depression","low-self-esteem","self-hatred"],"id":40728,"author_id":"Michele+McKnight+Baker"},{"text":"I had to sever my emotional cord to escape the anger and shame that silently slithered through my head, disconnecting myself from the stares and whispers that followed me down the hall.","author":"Rebecca Donovan","tags":["anger","disconnecting","emma","emotional","escape","feelings","guilt","self-hatred","sever","shame","stares","struggle","thoughts","weakness"],"id":42529,"author_id":"Rebecca+Donovan"},{"text":"Self-hatred is self-imprisonment. Self-forgiveness is self-liberation. You have the right to suppress yourself, oppress yourself and depress yourself. You have the right to impress yourself too. Feel happy!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["anger","compress","depress","don-t-hate-yourself","food-for-thought","forgiveness","free","freedom","glad","happiness","happy","hatred","impress","impression","impressive","imprison","israelmore-ayivor","liberate","liberation","liberty","oppress","oppression","sad","self","self-hatred","self-imprisonment","self-liberation","suppress","suppression","unhappy","yourself"],"id":56345,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.","author":"John Joseph Powell","tags":["affection","alone","beauty","camaraderie","caring","caring-for-others","closeness","companionship","compassion","connectedness","connection","disconnection","empathy","estrangement","fellowship","friendship","friendship","hug","hugs","intimacy","isolation","kindness","kindred-spirits","loneliness","love","love-at-first-sight","love","lovers","loving","loving-someone","mirror","mutuality","partnership","reciprocal","reciprocity","reflected-in-you","relationship","relationship","relationships","romance","self-belief","self-esteem","self-hatred","self-realization","self-worth","self-worthiness","soul-mate","soulmates","togetherness","touch","twin-flames"],"id":67576,"author_id":"John+Joseph+Powell"},{"text":"Self-hatred is the inevitable byproduct of the culture of narcissism in which we all have been reared. We learn from day one how special and wonderful we are. Or conversely, and perhaps more pervasively, we do not learn this at all and instead are subjected to glorified views of others through the media whom we idealize and envy. At the root of it all are inappropriate expectations about life, about ourselves, and an overvaluation of self that breeds profound isolation.","author":"Melissa Grabau","tags":["food","self-hatred","yoga-philosophy"],"id":70439,"author_id":"Melissa+Grabau"},{"text":"If there was an implicit self-hatred in trusting only your own, then how much deeper was the self-loathing that led a group of men to distrust someone for no reason other than that he was one of them?","author":"Amitav Ghosh","tags":["british-india","colonialism","racism","self-hatred"],"id":82934,"author_id":"Amitav+Ghosh"},{"text":"I pray that I am sufficiently stirred by the rumor of great things to seek the God who created this single thread that I am, and to marvel at a vision magnificent enough to cause this God to weave from this single thread a tapestry most resplendent.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["confidence","god","marvel","marvelous","self-confidence","self-esteem","self-hatred","self-image","strength","tapestry","thread","vision","weave","wove"],"id":99400,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":44,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}